The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-06

was drowned In attempting to escape.
SExCURsION TRAIN WRECKED.
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. S0.-Betweent twelve
and one O'Clock this morning an ex-
curBiOn train on the Missouri Pacific
was wrecked at Valley Park nineteen
miles west Of this city. The train was
loaded with grand army men, their
J | families and excursioni0ts who had
been TO the city to see the sights and
left the union depot at IL p. m. closely
followed by q second section. AT
Valley Park the first train was delayed
and through q Misunderstanding OF the
signals the second section crashed
into the rear chair cars of the first at
nearly full speed, badly Wrecking two
Of them, but in some unaccountable
way none OF the passengers were hurt,
and ali got out safely. Two cars
caught fire and were destroyed. Mo
Allister, engineer of the second section
was injured pretty badly and a porter
OF one OF the sleepers had a hand
crushed. An reports of more serious
results are false.
l DEVELOPED IN SMOKE.
OTTAWA, Ont, Sept. 30.-Ottawa is
enveloped in smoke 80 dense that OBJ
jects cannot be distinguished half
block away. A high wind would re-
suit in the destruction Of the city.
/ There is a fire to the southwark along
u
is fire eastward along the Canadian
Pacific, there Is fire westward up the
| Ottawa and fire in the mining country
at Pembroke, 100 miles in one dIrec-
ton and at Montreal 100 miles in an
other, and the smoke is reported to be
worse than at Ottawa The losses are
not only of timber but to farms are
enormous and will probably reach $780,
600. A heavy rain has never been
more needed in Canada than now.
NAVIGATION IAIPEDED.
QUEBEC, Sept. 30.-The smoke from
the bush fires was even more dense
yesterday than on any day since they
originated. The steamer Oregon, due
here "Wednesday, has not yet arrived
on account of the smoke. Navigation
is practically suspended between here
and Montreal, while reports from the
east say that navigation is too danger
GUS to be practicable.
KILLS A DESPERADO.
FAYETTEVILLE, Mo-, Sept. 29.-Last
night Sheriff j. j. Moore went into the
jail to take the prisoners some water,
when F. III. Baker, one of the prisoners,
made jumped at him and caught him
firmly by the throat and was joined by
Fred Maddox and Wilson, who we're in
jail under q charge of robbery. The
sheriff succeededin drawing his revolver
and firing. The ball passed through
the heart and lung of Baker, producing
death Immediately.
When the pistol was fired Maddox,
Wilson and a young colOred man
named Martin, made their escape. At
ter the sheriff had released himself
from the death grip of his Would-be
assassin, he started in pursuit of the
prisoners, buG having been so nearly
SuffOcated he was weak and progressed
slowly, but the alarm had been given
I,,RA
IN close pursuit: The prisoners ran
through the yard of Prosecuting Attor-
ney w. w. Fucker, who joined in the
chase and with a few shots from his re-
volver called q halt on the two white
men, but the negro continued to run
and was soon lost in the darkness and
rain.
tecedentS. He was arrested under
q charge Of horse stealing and lived
awhile in Brookheld. He was about 80
years old.
A BAD BREAK.
COLUMBUS, Kas., Sept. 29.-At 81
O'Clock last evening three persons con-
fined In the jail, convicted and await
ing sentence, attempted to overpower
the iailer and and escape. The taller,
II. p. Mooney, two of the prisoners, in
to the jail yard to procure water and
coal for the nights use. Upon coming
back to the inner door of the jail, as
Archer was unlocking it, they jumped
upon his back and showed him into a
cell, and with the assistance of a third |
prisoner by the name of Phillips, tried
to gag him to prevent his giving an
alarm. Archer, in struggling, succeed
ed in drawing his pistol and fired it.
AT that the prisoners ran from the Jail
and Archer again fired, dropping Rob
inson at the Jail yard gate with prob |
ably fatal wound. Archer then pur-
sued the other two, and shot at and hit |
Mooney twice, stopping him. Archer |
continued his pursuit of the third man
and, with the assistance of Mr.. Ham |
NETT, a liveryman, caught him. Noon
ey was convicted of grand larceny; Rob |
inson of horse stealing.
C0EEAN DUDE IN TROUBLE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29-Jun s. Yum
was arrested yesterday charged with
stealing diamond ring worth 800 from
a jeweler and subsequently pawning it
for $40. Mr.. Yum is a native of Corea.
He has been in this city several mOnths.I
and has made himself conspicuous by
his stylish dressing and his lavish at
tentiOns to young ladies residing in the
West end. This almond-eyed masher
wears giddy clothes, sucks the knob of
his cane, smokes cigarettes, and, in
fact, seems to have taken all the de-
| grees which entitle him to rank with
the regulation dudes. When he ar
rived in this country he is said to have
had a large sum of money, which might
have kept him in comfortable circum-
| stances for two or three years provid-
| ing he was judicious in his eXpendi-
| ture. He, however, came TO Washing
ton, took apartments at a fashionable
boarding house in the West End, and
1 hnnon0n =,
many of the young ladies in that
neighborhood. Recently he has de-
voted his attention almost entirely to
young lady of excellent family, re-
siding in South Washington. 1t is said
that he bestowed upon her diamond
earrings, finger rings and other articles
of jewelry to the extent Of several
hundred dollars.
NEGRO LTNCHED.
LITTLE Rock, Sept. 26.-COloneI b.
H. COoksage arrived here to-day from
Princeton, Dallas county, in the int
| rior Of the state, and brings infOrma-
tion Of the lynching of Harry Johoson,
colored for assaulting a white girl.
Thirty masked men took possession of
the town Sunday night, and put the
| sheriff and other prominent citizens
under guard until after they broke into
the jail and hung the negro.
GASOLINE EXPLOSION.
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. 28.-About one
O'Clock this morning Mrs. J. Thayer
awoke and found the lamp most out.
| On examination she discovered it need
ed refilling and proceeded to fill it from
what she supposed was the kerosene
can. She did not suspect ANYTHING
wrong until the flame began to sputter.
when she took up the lamp and started
across the room. AS she arrived oppo-
site her eight-year-Old son, who was
sleeping in cot, the gasoline which
she had filed the lamp with exploded
and covered him with mass of flames.
He died about one hour afterward.
! CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo-, Sept. pa
few evenings ago, N. r. Warmach,
postmaster of Moark, Ark. while in
this city,. was caught in the act of
stealing a bottle of catsup from the
counter Of the grocery department of
Babcock & Randall's general store.